princely elegance

Chapter 72 The Midfield Confrontation ([-]rd update)
"As for the audience friends, you are welcome to watch the second half of the 26th round of La Liga, Barcelona vs. Real Madrid at home. The first half can be said to be the most exciting half of the year, with four goals and a fast offensive and defensive rhythm. I am afraid that everything will make the blood of many neutral fans excited. Now that the second half has begun, let us see how many goals can be scored in this game. By the way, let us look forward to the vaguely direct confrontation between Messi and Gago!"

In the second half, Gago returned to the position of the defensive midfielder after changing sides, which means that there will be more duels with Messi.This has made countless neutral fans hooked, thinking that Capello is still quite cute, and he knows what they want to see.

Gago returned to his familiar position, without the slightest sense of strangeness as he had just played as a left midfielder. With his ankle hard, he crossed the ball to Diarra.Then dodged Deco's press and received a return pass again. Gago began to use more passes instead of breakthroughs, which helped him save energy.

However, the ball failed to form a shot in the end. After Guti received the ball, Harvey put it directly.The referee thought for a while and still didn't give a yellow card, and gave Real Madrid a free kick.This position is not bad. On the right side outside the penalty area, people with good footwork can still play the world wave.

This time Gago stood in front of the ball and blasted the goal directly against the wall.The ball drew a beautiful arc, crossed the wall, but was caught by Valdez when it fell.

"Pursuing angles, not enough speed."

Gago began to look back on his free kick career in his previous life. He hadn't played this game for a while, and he was getting rusty.It is necessary to get back the previous feeling through constant practice.

Next, Barcelona's luxurious midfield four teamed up to firmly control the ball in their own field, constantly crossing and returning, and Gago had no way to intercept the ball.He was even teased by them several times, and Gago learned to be smart after more times, and stopped chasing the ball. That was a black and hard style.

"Master is intelligent!"

Gago began to retreat to the front of the penalty area, while Diarra kept sweeping in front of him. His style restrained Barcelona's pass very well.With his running without hesitation, although Barcelona's midfielder was able to control the ball, he was still unable to score the ball into Real Madrid's penalty area as easily as in the first half.

In this case, it is time to test the personal abilities of the stars.

Thinking of this, Ronaldinho began to break through. Ramos' kick seemed to have no effect on him at all. He pushed the ball with his instep and broke through from the other side of Diarra.

"Ronaldo, the beautiful man passed the ball..."

As soon as the commentator's words were spoken, he choked back abruptly. Gago, who had been on guard against this for a long time, intercepted the ball in advance, allowing Ronaldinho to come over, but the ball did not return to his feet.

After Gago got the ball, he pushed forward directly, and Deco came up after passing the midfielder.On the other side, Harvey also imitated that he was staring at the back just now, obviously to prevent his breakthrough.

But Gago just pushed the ball to Raul's feet, and then stood in the midfield, ready to respond.

The most silent player in the latter part of the game was Raul, the captain, who hadn't even scored a goal until now, embarrassing the Lord of the Rings who has scored the most goals in the Derby history.After receiving the ball, he kicked directly to the right, hit Thuram and flew out.

Higuain wanted to make up the shot but was a step too slow, and Puyol kicked the ball out.

Barcelona's midfielder got the ball again, and the ball was sent to Real Madrid's half with three or two passes, and the constant crosses mobilized Real Madrid's defense.

Harvey suddenly sent a direct pass, Messi stopped the ball in the front court and turned around, and the two steps were completed in one go.Just when he was about to start, Gago stood in front of him.This was the first direct confrontation between the two, and they were not polite at this time.Messi directly accelerates to break through, wanting to use his speed to catch him raw, but Gago has already predicted his advancing path, and stands in front of him, waiting for Messi to hit him by himself.

But Xiao Tiaoshow stopped the ball abruptly at this time, then changed direction and changed a route.Gago switched positions again to block, and Messi stopped abruptly and changed direction again. The two confronted each other several times in a short period of time, but they were full of murderous intent.

Before he knew it, Gago had retreated to the penalty area line, and it would be troublesome if he went any further.The defensive side is always passive. Just when Gago was about to foul, the ball under Messi's feet disappeared. Ronaldinho appeared in the penalty area like a ghost and received his pass.

Adjusted, ready to shoot, but was tripped by Ramos outstretched.

All eyes were on the referee, watching how he judged.The Barcelona fans have already shouted a penalty kick and a yellow card. They have not forgotten that Real Madrid's No. 4 already had a yellow card in the first half.

Send him off, just like Oleg!
This is the psychological thought of all Barcelona fans, poor Oleg, who was shot while lying down.

But the result did not let them get what they wanted. The referee didn't give a penalty or a yellow card, but just gave the ball to Barcelona.This led to countless boos in the air above the stadium.

The following two sides began to play short pass penetration that dazzled countless fans. The unique and delicate skills of La Liga teams made their offensive cooperation like flowing water.

At this time, Gago suddenly had a feeling of playing against Getafe last time. Under the pressure of Barcelona's luxurious midfielder, he finally began to change.

Short pass, catch, side split, dispatch, organization, through pass!
Kneading the entire team together with the means that the core of the midfielder should have, countless first-class accessories have become a high-speed machine under the combination of him, an engineer.And every power is used just right, the players of Real Madrid have used the instinct of the body instead of the mind to move without knowing it.As long as they run under the gap, the ball will appear at his feet.Then take a shot or pass again.

In the 52nd minute, Gago counterattacked with a steal from the backcourt. Guti passed Higuain diagonally in front of the restricted area.

In the 55th minute, Gago split the side after receiving a pass from the defender, Raul made a pass, and Ruud van Nistelrooy volleyed higher in the restricted area.

In the 62nd minute, Real Madrid made a direct pass from the center, Guti moved to the wing, Higuain made a pass, the outflanking in front of the goal was not in place, and Thuram cleared the ball.

……

At this moment, Gago finally felt the state of a top organizational midfielder. Like a computer, he fine-tuned the density of the entire team to exert every strength without wasting it at all.

As a result, under the command of the transformed Gago, the pressure on Barcelona's luxurious midfielder, which could have been steadily suppressed, gradually increased.In the end, Deco couldn't help kicking Gago during a defense.

The sharp-eyed referee naturally would not let go of this action, and showed a yellow card to warn the honest-looking star.

(End of this chapter)